University of Virginia Medical Center

University of Virginia Medical Center is a 593-bed teaching hospital with 2200 registered nurses.

Infections

Infections

Avoiding Infections Overall

Avoiding Infections Overall

This rating is a composite for avoiding surgical-site infections, infections stemming from MRSA and C.difficile, as well as infections related to central-line catheters and urinary catheters.

Avoiding bloodstream infections (ICU/Ward)
1

Avoiding bloodstream infections (ICU/Ward)

This rating shows bloodstream infections that patients contracted while they had central-line catheters in place, compared with national averages published by the CDC.

This hospital reported 36 bloodstream infections in the 33,822 days that its patients had central lines between 04/01/2016 and 03/31/2017. This is 5% better than national rates.

Avoiding catheter-associated urinary tract infections (ICU/Ward)
2

Avoiding catheter-associated urinary tract infections (ICU/Ward)

This rating shows urinary tract infections that patients contracted while they had a urinary catheter in place, compared with national averages published by the CDC.

This hospital reported 34 catheter-associated urinary tract infections in the 21,204 days that its patients had catheters between 04/01/2016 and 03/31/2017. This is 3% worse than national rates.

Avoiding Surgical Site Infections
3

Avoiding Surgical Site Infections

This rating shows infections patients contracted following several common surgical procedures, compared with national averages published by the CDC. When possible, it adjusts for the fact that different surgical procedures have different infection rates.

This hospital reported 11 surgical-site infections
in 900 surgical procedures among its patients between 04/01/2016 and 03/31/2017. This is 26% better than national rates for the surgical procedures reported by this hospital.

Avoiding MRSA infections
4

Avoiding MRSA infections

This rating shows MRSA infections that patients contracted during their stay in this hospital compared with national averages published by the CDC.

This hospital reported 21 MRSA infections in
172,247 days its patients spent in the hospital between 04/01/2016 and 03/31/2017. This is 98% worse than national rates.

Avoiding C.difficile infections
5

Avoiding C.difficile infections

This rating shows the C.difficile infections that patients contracted during their stay in this hospital compared with national averages published by the CDC.

This hospital reported 176 C.difficile infections
in 158,457 days its patients spent in the hospital between 04/01/2016 and 03/31/2017. This is 45% worse than national rates.

This rating is based on the percentage of first-time mothers who had a C-section at this hospital. It does not include women who had multiple babies in that delivery, delivered pre-term, had a delivery where the baby was in an abnormal position (for example, feet first or face up), or a delivery where the baby died.

In this hospital 28% of first-time mothers with low-risk deliveries had a C-section.

The data on this page was last published in August 2017.

Sources for the information on this page:

Data from
The Leapfrog Group
which was collected through the annual Leapfrog Hospital Survey.

Safety Score

Safety Score

Avoiding Infections Overall

Avoiding Infections Overall

This rating is a composite for avoiding surgical-site infections, infections stemming from MRSA and C.difficile, as well as infections related to central-line catheters and urinary catheters.

Communication about hospital discharge

90% of patients said that they were told what to watch for after leaving the hospital.

Communication about drug information

82% of patients said that staff always or usually explained about new medications.

Avoiding readmissions
1

Avoiding readmissions

This rating is based on the chance that a Medicare patient will be readmitted to a hospital, for any cause, within 30 days after being discharged.

Medicare patients have a 17% chance of being readmitted to the hospital within 30 days.

Avoiding death - medical
2

Avoiding death - medical

This rating is based on the chance that a heart attack, stroke, heart failure, pneumonia, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patient will die within 30 days of being admitted to the hospital. The data are adjusted for the varying health status of patients treated at each hospital.

This rating is based on the chance that a heart attack,
stroke, heart failure, pneumonia, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patient will die within 30 days of being admitted to the hospital.

Avoiding death - surgical
3

Avoiding death - surgical

This rating is based on how often patients undergoing surgery died in the hospital after developing a complication such as pneumonia, deep vein thrombosis/pulmonary embolism, sepsis, shock/cardiac arrest or gastrointestinal hemorrhage/acute ulcer that should have been identified quickly and treated.

This rating is based on how often patients undergoing
surgery died in the hospital after developing a serious treatable complication.

Appropriate use of abdominal scanning
4

Appropriate use of abdominal scanning

This rating is based on the proportion of patients who received one CT scan of the abdomen with contrast and another without it, out of all patients who received CT scans of the abdomen. Such double scans can expose patients to unnecessary radiation.

4% of scanned patients at this hospital received double abdominal scans.

Appropriate use of chest scanning
5

Appropriate use of chest scanning

This rating is based on the proportion of patients who received one CT scan of the chest with contrast and another without it, out of all patients who received CT scans of the chest. Such double scans can expose patients to unnecessary radiation.

Fewer than 1% of scanned patients at this hospital received double chest scans.

These Ratings were derived from data submitted by hospitals to The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. The Ratings are based on data from the medical records of patients, considered the "gold standard" for quality measurement. The methods used to derive these Ratings have been endorsed by the National Quality Forum, a nonprofit organization that endorses consensus standards for measuring and publically reporting.

Overall Heart Bypass Surgery Performance

Overall Heart Bypass Surgery Performance

The rating is based on results from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons CABG Composite performance measure. There are only three rating categories: Better than expected performance, as expected performance, and worse than expected performance.

These ratings are based on 267 heart
bypass operations performed between 01/01/2016 and 12/31/2016. Surgeons at this hospital may have performed additional heart bypass operations that are not included here, either
at other hospitals or combined with other surgical procedures.

Patient survival

Patient survival

This is based on the chance that a patient will survive at least 30 days after the surgery and will be discharged from the hospital, adjusted for the overall health of the hospital's patients.

Patients have a 98% chance of surviving at least 30 days after the procedure and of being discharged from the hospital.

Absence of complications

Absence of complications

This is based on the chance that a patient will not experience any of these five serious complications of heart bypass surgery during their hospitalization, adjusted for the overall health of the hospital's patients: extended breathing support on a ventilator, an infection in the breastbone incision, kidney failure, a stroke, or a repeat operation for postoperative bleeding or other causes.

Patients have a 89% chance of avoiding all five of the major complications.

Recommended medications

Recommended medications

This is based on the chance that a patient will get all of the following drugs: a beta-blocker before surgery, and aspirin, a beta-blocker, and a statin or other drug to lower cholesterol afterward.

Patients have a 98% chance of receiving all four of the recommended medications.

Optimal surgical technique

Optimal surgical technique

This is based on the chance that a patient will receive at least one graft involving an internal mammary artery, a technique shown to improve long-term survival.

Patients have a 99% chance of receiving at least one optimal surgical graft.

Overall Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery

Overall Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery

The rating is based on results from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons AVR Composite performance measure. There are only three rating categories: Better than expected performance, as expected performance, and worse than expected performance.

These ratings are based on 354 aortic
valve replacement operations performed between 01/01/2014 and 12/31/2016. Surgeons at this hospital may have performed additional aortic valve replacement operations that are
not included here, either at other hospitals or combined with other surgical procedures.

Patient survival

Patient survival

This is based on the chance that a patient will survive at least 30 days after the surgery and will be discharged from the hospital, adjusted for the overall health of the hospital's patients.

Patients have a 98% chance of surviving at least 30 days after the procedure and of being discharged from the hospital.

Absence of complications

Absence of complications

This is based on the chance that a patient will not experience any of these five serious complications of aortic valve surgery during their hospitalization, adjusted for the overall health of the hospital's patients: extended breathing support on a ventilator, an infection in the breastbone incision, kidney failure, a stroke, or a repeat operation for postoperative bleeding or other causes.

Patients have a 91% chance of avoiding all five of the major complications.

Overall Congenital Heart Surgery Performance

Overall Congenital Heart Surgery Performance

The rating is based on results from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons CHSD performance measure which consists of 4 years worth of risk adjusted mortality rates. There are only three rating categories: Better than expected performance, as expected performance, and worse than expected performance. Surgeons at this hospital may have performed additional heart operations that are not included here, either at other hospitals or combined with other surgical procedures.

Patients have a 4% chance of dying. This rating is based on 676 congenital heart operations, mostly on children,
performed between 01/01/2013 and 12/31/2016.

These ratings are based on government surveys of patients' hospital experiences. Overall patient experience is based on the percent of patients who said they would definitely recommend the hospital and the percent who rated the hospital a 9 or 10.

This shows patients' overall assessments of the quality
of care they received.

Communication about hospital discharge

90% of patients said that they were told what to watch for after leaving the hospital.

Communication about drug information

82% of patients said that staff always or usually explained about new medications.

Doctor-patient communication

96% of patients said that doctors always or usually communicated well.

Nurse-patient communication

97% of patients said that nurses always or usually communicated well.

Pain control

91% of patients said that their pain was always or usually well controlled.

Help from hospital staff

89% of patients said that staff always or usually provided help quickly.

Room cleanliness

92% of patients said that their room and bathrooms were always or usually clean.

Room quietness

83% of patients said that the area around their rooms were always or usually quiet at night.

University of Virginia Medical Center is a 593-bed teaching hospital with 2200 registered nurses.

Number of beds
593

Full-time registered nurses
2200

Full-time registered nurses

This shows the number of full-time equivalent registered nurses employed by the hospital, according to a survey published by the American Hospital Association.

Full time registered nurses is estimated
No

Is a Teaching hospital
Yes

Is a Teaching hospital

This shows whether a hospital meets any of these criteria - 1.) Is a member of the Association of American Medical College's Council of Teaching Hospitals. 2.) Has a residency training program approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. 3.) Reports an affiliation with a medical school to the American Medical Association.

This rating is a composite for avoiding surgical-site infections, infections stemming from MRSA and C.difficile, as well as infections related to central-line catheters and urinary catheters.

Avoiding bloodstream infections (ICU/Ward)
1

Avoiding bloodstream infections (ICU/Ward)

This rating shows bloodstream infections that patients contracted while they had central-line catheters in place, compared with national averages published by the CDC.

This hospital reported 36 bloodstream infections in the 33,822 days that its patients had central lines between 04/01/2016 and 03/31/2017. This is 5% better than national rates.

Avoiding catheter-associated urinary tract infections (ICU/Ward)
2

Avoiding catheter-associated urinary tract infections (ICU/Ward)

This rating shows urinary tract infections that patients contracted while they had a urinary catheter in place, compared with national averages published by the CDC.

This hospital reported 34 catheter-associated urinary tract infections in the 21,204 days that its patients had catheters between 04/01/2016 and 03/31/2017. This is 3% worse than national rates.

Avoiding Surgical Site Infections
3

Avoiding Surgical Site Infections

This rating shows infections patients contracted following several common surgical procedures, compared with national averages published by the CDC. When possible, it adjusts for the fact that different surgical procedures have different infection rates.

This hospital reported 11 surgical-site infections
in 900 surgical procedures among its patients between 04/01/2016 and 03/31/2017. This is 26% better than national rates for the surgical procedures reported by this hospital.

Avoiding MRSA infections
4

Avoiding MRSA infections

This rating shows MRSA infections that patients contracted during their stay in this hospital compared with national averages published by the CDC.

This hospital reported 21 MRSA infections in
172,247 days its patients spent in the hospital between 04/01/2016 and 03/31/2017. This is 98% worse than national rates.

Avoiding C.difficile infections
5

Avoiding C.difficile infections

This rating shows the C.difficile infections that patients contracted during their stay in this hospital compared with national averages published by the CDC.

This hospital reported 176 C.difficile infections
in 158,457 days its patients spent in the hospital between 04/01/2016 and 03/31/2017. This is 45% worse than national rates.

This rating is based on the percentage of first-time mothers who had a C-section at this hospital. It does not include women who had multiple babies in that delivery, delivered pre-term, had a delivery where the baby was in an abnormal position (for example, feet first or face up), or a delivery where the baby died.

In this hospital 28% of first-time mothers with low-risk deliveries had a C-section.

The data on this page was last published in August 2017.

Sources for the information on this page:

Data from
The Leapfrog Group
which was collected through the annual Leapfrog Hospital Survey.

Safety Score

Avoiding Infections Overall

Avoiding Infections Overall

This rating is a composite for avoiding surgical-site infections, infections stemming from MRSA and C.difficile, as well as infections related to central-line catheters and urinary catheters.

Communication about hospital discharge

90% of patients said that they were told what to watch for after leaving the hospital.

Communication about drug information

82% of patients said that staff always or usually explained about new medications.

Avoiding readmissions
1

Avoiding readmissions

This rating is based on the chance that a Medicare patient will be readmitted to a hospital, for any cause, within 30 days after being discharged.

Medicare patients have a 17% chance of being readmitted to the hospital within 30 days.

Avoiding death - medical
2

Avoiding death - medical

This rating is based on the chance that a heart attack, stroke, heart failure, pneumonia, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patient will die within 30 days of being admitted to the hospital. The data are adjusted for the varying health status of patients treated at each hospital.

This rating is based on the chance that a heart attack,
stroke, heart failure, pneumonia, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patient will die within 30 days of being admitted to the hospital.

Avoiding death - surgical
3

Avoiding death - surgical

This rating is based on how often patients undergoing surgery died in the hospital after developing a complication such as pneumonia, deep vein thrombosis/pulmonary embolism, sepsis, shock/cardiac arrest or gastrointestinal hemorrhage/acute ulcer that should have been identified quickly and treated.

This rating is based on how often patients undergoing
surgery died in the hospital after developing a serious treatable complication.

Appropriate use of abdominal scanning
4

Appropriate use of abdominal scanning

This rating is based on the proportion of patients who received one CT scan of the abdomen with contrast and another without it, out of all patients who received CT scans of the abdomen. Such double scans can expose patients to unnecessary radiation.

4% of scanned patients at this hospital received double abdominal scans.

Appropriate use of chest scanning
5

Appropriate use of chest scanning

This rating is based on the proportion of patients who received one CT scan of the chest with contrast and another without it, out of all patients who received CT scans of the chest. Such double scans can expose patients to unnecessary radiation.

Fewer than 1% of scanned patients at this hospital received double chest scans.

These Ratings were derived from data submitted by hospitals to The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. The Ratings are based on data from the medical records of patients, considered the "gold standard" for quality measurement. The methods used to derive these Ratings have been endorsed by the National Quality Forum, a nonprofit organization that endorses consensus standards for measuring and publically reporting.

Overall Heart Bypass Surgery Performance

Overall Heart Bypass Surgery Performance

The rating is based on results from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons CABG Composite performance measure. There are only three rating categories: Better than expected performance, as expected performance, and worse than expected performance.

These ratings are based on 267 heart
bypass operations performed between 01/01/2016 and 12/31/2016. Surgeons at this hospital may have performed additional heart bypass operations that are not included here, either
at other hospitals or combined with other surgical procedures.

Patient survival

Patient survival

This is based on the chance that a patient will survive at least 30 days after the surgery and will be discharged from the hospital, adjusted for the overall health of the hospital's patients.

Patients have a 98% chance of surviving at least 30 days after the procedure and of being discharged from the hospital.

Absence of complications

Absence of complications

This is based on the chance that a patient will not experience any of these five serious complications of heart bypass surgery during their hospitalization, adjusted for the overall health of the hospital's patients: extended breathing support on a ventilator, an infection in the breastbone incision, kidney failure, a stroke, or a repeat operation for postoperative bleeding or other causes.

Patients have a 89% chance of avoiding all five of the major complications.

Recommended medications

Recommended medications

This is based on the chance that a patient will get all of the following drugs: a beta-blocker before surgery, and aspirin, a beta-blocker, and a statin or other drug to lower cholesterol afterward.

Patients have a 98% chance of receiving all four of the recommended medications.

Optimal surgical technique

Optimal surgical technique

This is based on the chance that a patient will receive at least one graft involving an internal mammary artery, a technique shown to improve long-term survival.

Patients have a 99% chance of receiving at least one optimal surgical graft.

Overall Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery

Overall Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery

The rating is based on results from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons AVR Composite performance measure. There are only three rating categories: Better than expected performance, as expected performance, and worse than expected performance.

These ratings are based on 354 aortic
valve replacement operations performed between 01/01/2014 and 12/31/2016. Surgeons at this hospital may have performed additional aortic valve replacement operations that are
not included here, either at other hospitals or combined with other surgical procedures.

Patient survival

Patient survival

This is based on the chance that a patient will survive at least 30 days after the surgery and will be discharged from the hospital, adjusted for the overall health of the hospital's patients.

Patients have a 98% chance of surviving at least 30 days after the procedure and of being discharged from the hospital.

Absence of complications

Absence of complications

This is based on the chance that a patient will not experience any of these five serious complications of aortic valve surgery during their hospitalization, adjusted for the overall health of the hospital's patients: extended breathing support on a ventilator, an infection in the breastbone incision, kidney failure, a stroke, or a repeat operation for postoperative bleeding or other causes.

Patients have a 91% chance of avoiding all five of the major complications.

Overall Congenital Heart Surgery Performance

Overall Congenital Heart Surgery Performance

The rating is based on results from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons CHSD performance measure which consists of 4 years worth of risk adjusted mortality rates. There are only three rating categories: Better than expected performance, as expected performance, and worse than expected performance. Surgeons at this hospital may have performed additional heart operations that are not included here, either at other hospitals or combined with other surgical procedures.

Patients have a 4% chance of dying. This rating is based on 676 congenital heart operations, mostly on children,
performed between 01/01/2013 and 12/31/2016.

These ratings are based on government surveys of patients' hospital experiences. Overall patient experience is based on the percent of patients who said they would definitely recommend the hospital and the percent who rated the hospital a 9 or 10.

This shows patients' overall assessments of the quality
of care they received.

Communication about hospital discharge

90% of patients said that they were told what to watch for after leaving the hospital.

Communication about drug information

82% of patients said that staff always or usually explained about new medications.

Doctor-patient communication

96% of patients said that doctors always or usually communicated well.

Nurse-patient communication

97% of patients said that nurses always or usually communicated well.

Pain control

91% of patients said that their pain was always or usually well controlled.

Help from hospital staff

89% of patients said that staff always or usually provided help quickly.

Room cleanliness

92% of patients said that their room and bathrooms were always or usually clean.

Room quietness

83% of patients said that the area around their rooms were always or usually quiet at night.

University of Virginia Medical Center is a 593-bed teaching hospital with 2200 registered nurses.

Number of beds
593

Full-time registered nurses
2200

Full-time registered nurses

This shows the number of full-time equivalent registered nurses employed by the hospital, according to a survey published by the American Hospital Association.

Full time registered nurses is estimated
No

Is a Teaching hospital
Yes

Is a Teaching hospital

This shows whether a hospital meets any of these criteria - 1.) Is a member of the Association of American Medical College's Council of Teaching Hospitals. 2.) Has a residency training program approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. 3.) Reports an affiliation with a medical school to the American Medical Association.